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May 3, 2012

Campfire Cones

Over Spring Break a few weeks ago, I took the kids camping. I'll be honest, we weren't totally roughing it ~ our cabin had heat and electricity (and even a little fridge and microwave). Despite those "luxuries", I knew I wanted to do most of our cooking over the campfire. We cooked hot dogs and chicken and roasted TONS of marshmallows (seriously, like 2 whole bags between the four of us!). However, for a more "gourmet" dessert, I decided to combine the ingredients of our Campfire Bananas with the recent post I saw on Quirky Momma making Smores in a Cone! ( The original idea that inspired this yummy recipe came from Chef Jessica. Check out all the yummy ingredients she put in her Campfire Cones when she came up with this idea)

1. Chop up the bananas and get some marshmallows and chocolate chips ready. ( I liked using these ingredients on a camping trip because they don't need to be refrigerated and you can easily slice the bananas with a plastic knife ~ oh, and the fact that they're really, really yummy together!)

2. Spread some peanut butter on the inside of the cone, then put in the bananas, marshmallows and chocolate chips.

3. Wrap the whole cone in aluminum foil, then put in over the hot coals for 5-10 minutes or so, turning every so often.

"Come on, Mom, you're taking pictures of clumps of foil!"

4. Unwrap your cone, check to see that everything's ooey, gooey, and melted... then dig in and enjoy!

The combination of the melted peanut butter, chocolate and marshmallows with the warm bananas was just awesome. Making it in the sugar cone gave it all a nice crunch and made it a little less messy than a regular s'more. (At least for some of us)

The smile says it all!

Of course, an 8 year old boy can succeed in getting a very chocolate-y face and fingers, even with a handy cone holder!

Thanks Rachel at Quirky Momma for your recent post just in time for us to go camping and Jessica at Chef Jessica Bright for coming up with our new campfire favorite!

We made campfire cones this weekend too! We used chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, marshmallows, bananas, and strawberries and they were so good! Surprisingly, my boys even managed to eat them without making a mess:)

Susan, you must introduce S'mores to Australia! You just need graham crackers, marshmallows and a piece of a chocolate bar. Roast the marshmallow over the fire, then put the marshmallow and the chocolate between two graham crackers. The hot marshmallow will melt the chocolate and you have an awesome treat!

Anonymous, the peanut butter is totally optional (as are the bananas). I just personally love that banana, chocolate, peanut butter combo. The cones would be just as yummy with just chocolate and marshmallows or by stuffing them with other ingredients the kids would like.

Super yummy! Going to add this to our list of campfire treats! If you'd like another idea to try with your kids, I just posted about making s'mores with fudge striped cookies instead of graham crackers and marshmallows. :)

Somebody asked for ideas on other things to use in these cones. Well, here's just a start - take your cupcake tins (mini or reg.) and fill each cup with different items. Let the maker choose. Try: chopped nuts (pecans/almonds are great), raisins, craisins, toffee chips, peanut butter, butterscotch, chocolate, white chocolate chips, chopped dates, bananas, any berry, chopped oreos, marshmallows, caramel chips, cantaloupe, mangos, peaches, granola, quick oats, shredded wheat (mashed up - nice and crunchy), cheerios, coconut, popcorn, etc., etc. Need more? Go shopping and grab whatever looks good to you. Just be sure to have the marshmallows! They hold it all together and make them gooey and good!!

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